LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products
(NYSE: APD) today announced it has signed a contract with Anhui
Sanan OptoElectronics Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Sanan
OptoElectronics, to build two on-site ammonia (NH3) plants at
Sanan's new high brightness light emitting diode (LED)
manufacturing facility in the Wuhu Economic and Technological
Development Area, Anhui Province,
China. These new facilities, which
will supply ammonia with state-of-the-art purity to Sanan, will be
the first and largest on-site specialty gas plants in the
world.
Each plant Air Products is building will be capable of supplying
2,000 metric tons per year. Large volumes of NH3 are needed to
provide the nitrogen source for the gallium nitride layers used in
the manufacture of LEDs. Air Products currently supplies Sanan
OptoElectronics' two other LED facilities in China.
"We are pleased Sanan OptoElectronics chose Air Products for
their high purity ammonia needs at Anhui," said Corning Painter, vice president
and general manager, Electronics, for Air Products. "At these
volumes, Air Products is the only company providing ammonia with
the purity at the source necessary for LED production."
Air Products has a long history of building on-site industrial
gas plants. In fact, the company pioneered the process in the
1940s. Since then, it has been building on-site facilities serving
the refining, chemicals, steel and glass making industries around
the world.
To view the complete news release, visit
www.airproducts.com/PressRoom/CompanyNews/Archived/2010/14Oct2010.htm.
***NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of
the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual
performance and financial results may differ materially from
projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking
statements because of many factors not anticipated by management,
including risk factors described in the Company's Form 10K for its
fiscal year ended September 30,
2009.
SOURCE Air Products
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